Curtain-pin.



E. W. MUNDT.

CURTAIN PIN.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 13, 1914.

1,121,391. Patented Dec. 15,1914.

W I I By Z ATIORNEYS THE NORRIS PETERS C0,. FHOTO-LITHQ, WASHINGTON. D, C.

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the parts in normal closed position; and

' spring EMILW. MUND'I, or, YORK, n. Y.

onnTAIN-PIN.

State of New York, have invented anew of-which the.

and exact .de-.

and Improved Curtain-Pin,

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vices and has particular reference to hooks or pins adapted primarily for securing lace curtains or the like.

Among the objects of the invention are, first, to provide a curtain pinof a simple and cheap construction of a nature serving to prevent the fabric from becoming caught or snarled injany manner, and, secondly, to provide improved locking means not only for'the hook portion but also for the pin.

The foregoing and otherobjects of the invention will hereinafter be more fully described and claimed and illustrated in the drawings forming a part of this specification in which like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the views, and in which' 1 Figure 1 is a perspective view showing Fig. 2 is an edge view of the same.

The several parts of the device may bemade of any suitable materials, and the relative sizes and proportions, as well as the general design of the mechanism, may be varied to a considerable extent without departing from the spirit of the invention hereinafter more fully described and spe-' cifically claimed.

My invention in its preferred form comprises a device formed preferably from a single piece of wire and so bent as to form at one end a straight bar pin 10 and at the other end a peculiar form of keeper 11.

The intermediate portions. of the piece of wire are formed into a hook 12 and a spring 13. The keeper 11 "extends downwardly at an angle from a frame bar 14: which may lie substantially in the same vertical plane as the pin 10, and the keeper portion is bent laterally at the bottom from said plane and thence upwardly, forming a loop 11 at the bottomyand thence bent again forming a loop 11 in a plane oblique to the plane of the bar 14: and pin 10 and with the free end of the metal bent substantially parallel to the parts just described,

Application meana is, 1914. Serial No. 838,289.

to-a certain the vertical plane of the pin so as to allow wardly past the hump 11 This invention relates tofastening dewthe loop 12" of dental displacement or release of the curtain shank 16- to the spring 13.

to pass,

Specification of Letters Patent." I P t t d 15, 1914,

at the bottom substanforming loop 11 The free end of tially against the loop 11*.

the keeper projects upwardly toward the shoulder 15 and is adapted to move bodily extent laterally with respect to the pin to which is formed in the keeper between the loop 11 and the bottom thereof and which extends inwardly *toward the plane of the pin aforesaid and In other words, that as shown in Fig. 2. portion of the keeper between the loops 11 and 11 tendsto obstruct the passage pin in or out of the keeper, but the elasticity of the keeper, especially the free end thereof, will permit the pin to be forced past thevhump 11 The hook 12 of the device comprises a shank 16 having two portions of the wire twisteoltogether, making a stiff structure, and above'the twisted portion the two wires are formed into right and left coils 17. The wires emerge from the coils in close relation to each other, and are thence bent into the hook 11, the point 12 thereof making the-connection between the two'wire portions. The coils 17 cooperate with the tongue portion of the hook 12 to form a i look for the hanger or ring (not shown) from which the hook 12 is suspended in practice. In other words, the coils 17 are adapted to faces of the portions of the wire which form the hook and prevent accipin from its support.

A second frame bar 14' leads from the The spring is of a form and nature similar to other de-. vices of thisgeneral character, but instead of the pin leading from the spring, it extends downwardly at 1O forming a substantially square shoulder 10 which serves as a stop or abutment for the fabric through which the pin is adapted thereby preventing the fabric from catching into and being torn by the spring 13.

Having claim as new and Patent 1. In a fastening device of the character set forth, the combination of a frame, a pin having spring connection to the frame in desire to secure by Letters substantially the same vertical plane as the pass either inwardly or out-- of the bear loosely against the rear thus described my invention, I-

directly horizontally frame, and'a keeper for the point of the and thence downwardly forming a, pair of loops to support the pin, one of said loops I being movable bodily laterally of the frame being formed as an extension of other loop. 2; The herein described curtain pin comprising a frame, a pin lying substantiallyin the same vertical'plane as the frame, and a keeper for the polnt of the pin,

of-the pin and frame independently of the of said frame,

an oblique angle to the said keeper one portion said portion being bent dOWI1-' wardly around the pin, thence upwardly and thence downwardly, forming a loop at plane of the pin aforesaid, and thence bent downwardly around the pin in a reverse. direction to the first mentioned loop, the portion of the keeper between the upperloop thereof and the bottom loop being bent inwardly toward the plane of the pin and frame forming a lock for the pin point.

Intestimony whereof I havesigned iny 7 name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' v EMILWV; MUNDT; \Vitne'sses':

GEO. L. BEELER, PHILIP D. RoLLHAvs.

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Washington, D. C. 

